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Indonesia lifts TikTok licence suspension as app shares data 05 Oct 2025 - 03:09 pm
The TikTok logo is displayed on signage outside TikTok social media app company offices in Culver City, California on September 30, 2025. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
Hanoi's Old Quarter glows as Mid-Autumn Festival approaches 05 Oct 2025 - 02:21 pm
People shop for the Mid-Autumn Festival at Hang Ma Street in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 3, 2025. Hanoi's Hang Ma Street is brightly decorated with lanterns and festive items for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. (Photo by Dang Hong Dung/Xinhua)
5 teenagers arrested after stolen car hits police car in Australia 05 Oct 2025 - 01:48 pm
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Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Matmo lashes southern China 05 Oct 2025 - 01:15 pm
This photo taken on Oct. 5, 2025 shows high waves in a seashore area of Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. Xinhua/Guo Cheng
Boy hospitalized in Thailand after attack by escaped lion 05 Oct 2025 - 12:39 pm
This handout photo taken and released on October 5, 2025 by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) shows a female pet lion chained to a kitchen table before being confiscated by authorities, in western Kanchanaburi province. (Photo by Handout / Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) / AFP)
Landslides and floods killed 42 in Nepal 05 Oct 2025 - 12:22 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by Nepal's Army on October 5, 2025 shows Army personnel carrying a landslide victim evacuated by a helicoper following heavy rain-triggered landslides and floods in Nepal. (Photo by Nepalese Army / AFP)
Indian states ban cough syrup linked to child deaths 05 Oct 2025 - 08:14 am
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6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes eastern coast of Japan: GFZ 04 Oct 2025 - 10:07 pm
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17, dozens still missing 04 Oct 2025 - 05:30 pm
Police officials transfer the remains of a student, killed in a building collapse at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school, to a morgue at the Bhayangkara hospital in Surabaya, East Java province on October 4, 2025. (Photo by Juni KRISWANTO / AFP)
China hawk Takaichi set to be Japan's first woman PM 04 Oct 2025 - 10:09 am
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4, 2025. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon / POOL / AFP)
One dead, one missing in Japan after bear attack 04 Oct 2025 - 09:58 am
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New direct flight route links China's Shenzhen with Indonesia's Manado 03 Oct 2025 - 05:12 pm
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Indonesia suspends TikTok licence over failure to share data 03 Oct 2025 - 04:13 pm
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India and China to resume direct flights after 5 years 03 Oct 2025 - 12:26 pm
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Philippine quake toll hits 72, aftershocks at 2,652 expected to continue in coming days 02 Oct 2025 - 10:48 pm
Rescuers search for three people who were reported missing under the rubble of a collapsed building in Bogo City on October 1, 2025. (Photo by Ted Aljibe / AFP)
Malaysia to expand bamboo industry to meet global demand 02 Oct 2025 - 06:48 pm
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No more signs of life in Indonesia school collapse: rescuers 02 Oct 2025 - 09:48 am
A relative of a missing student mourns as rescuers search for survivors at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java province on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto / AFP)
Mobile and internet restored across Afghanistan 01 Oct 2025 - 08:56 pm
An Afghan vendor selling perfume and body sprays, uses his mobile phone as he sits at his shop in Kabul on October 1, 2025.  (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP)